Myths and trues about the Brain XD

The Doctor Maldonado spoke about myths and truths about the brain and he exposed a series of myths. Is very important to know the brain, and is fundamental to the health professionals that they understand the functioning of this organ. For this reason that is important to know that there are many myths about the brain and that is necessary as a futures health professionals to explain to the people, to the patients, that these myths are not truth, for example: “ The human brain is different from the brain of the others animals”, this is not true, because the animals have the same structure in the brain that the human brain, the difference is not structural only that the human cerebral cortex is very longer and have more neurons. “Every brain functions are localized in a specific place of the brain”, in first moment this could be true, because there are some functions that are more “marked” in specific areas of the brain but in the same time are activated others places. Other myth that the people believe, is “The brain is like computer”, and this is absolutely false, because here there are many difference, two of the more important differences are, first, that the computer have a localized memory but the human brain has a distributed memory, and second, that the brain have simultaneous functions, but the computer has only sequential functions. “The brain represent the reality around us”, this is wrong, because for example, with my ear, I can listen one thing but with my eyes I can see other thing very different in the same situation, and this happen because in the brain are activated others areas in the same time. Each of us has different realities or different perceptions of the world. And the last myth, is “ We use only 10% of our brain”, and this is impossible, because our brain has plasticity, the brain need more neuronal connections , for example, the occipital area of the blind people is activated because they can read with his hands!!!! (Braille) The brain is a complex organ, it has the control of all our functions, and the same time permits that each of us has different perceptions. Is very important all this in Midwifery profession, because permit us to understand why each women is different, why all woman has a different perceptions of the pregnancy, labor, maternity, and for this reason the attention is different to each women. And for other part permit us to apply the "early stimulation" in the baby because the brain is plastic, in others words, is changing.